Month: December 2017

Team Canada has won the 2017 Spengler Cup. On Sunday in Davos, Switzerland, the Canadian team defeated Switzerland 3-0 in the gold medal game. Both the Canadian and Swiss men’s hockey teams were using the tournament to evaluate their talent for Read more

The Canadian under-19 basketball team has won the 2017 Canadian Press Team of the Year. Canada won the 2017 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup in Cairo, Egypt on July 9. Team Canada defeated Italy 79-60 in the gold medal game. Read more

For the second time in three years, Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ontario has won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award, which is presented to the Canadian Press Female Athlete of the Year. Henderson won the award on Wednesday. Henderson won twice Read more

Dennis Shapovalov of Toronto, Ontario has been named the Canadian Press Male Athlete of the Year. Even though Shapovalov had a losing record playing tennis in 2017 (12-13) and was disqualified for smashing an umpire with the tennis ball, which Read more

The 2017 Spengler Cup begins on Tuesday from Davos, Switzerland. This is a very important tournament for players trying to make the Canadian Olympic men’s hockey team as Team Canada management is using the event to decide who will make Read more

Team Canada is set to begin the 2018 World Junior Hockey Championship in Buffalo, New York on Tuesday. The Canadian team will be playing Finland its first game of the tournament starting at 2pm MT on TSN. The Canadian squad Read more

The Canadian roster has been named for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang in women’s hockey. Canada has won the gold medal in women’s hockey in each of the last four Olympic Winter Games and has momentum heading into South Read more

Mikael Kingsbury of Ste-agathe-des-Monts, Quebec won two World Cup men’s moguls competitions in Thaiwoo, China this past week.His first World Cup win came on Thursday and his second World Cup win came on Friday. On Thursday, Kingsbury had 83.61 Read more

Olympic bronze medalist Georgia Simmerling of Vancouver, British Columbia won World Cup women’s ski cross medals on back-to-back days this past week in Innichen, Italy. Simmerling won a silver medal on Thursday and a bronze medal on Friday. On Thursday, Read more

For the first time ever, Team Canada has won an Olympic medal in the sport of luge. On Friday, the Canadian team of Samuel Edney, Tristan Snith, Justin Walker and Alex Gough of Calgary, Alberta made Canadian sports history by winning Read more